Bryson DeChambeau insisted on Saturday that he had still to find his A game, despite the fact he had grasped the lead going into the final round of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic.

If that came across as a touch of American baloney, the 25-year-old from Modesto, California dispelled the impression emphatically on Sunday with a round that was anything but modest.

Indeed, no one was left in any doubt as to what he had been driving at earlier, as he upped his game appreciably with an impressive final-round 64 for a tournament record score of 24-under par and a runaway seven-stroke success over England’s Matt Wallace.

Bryson DeChambeau claimed a remarkable fourth win in his last nine events in Dubai

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What a way to win your first tournament outside America, and first on the European Tour.

‘Yes, I was very happy with my game today,’ conceded DeChambeau. ‘I executed a lot of great shots, and it feels incredible to get my first win worldwide. I had an ambitious goal of 25 under in my head and I almost got there.’

Two of the last three winners of this iconic event have gone on to win the Masters at Augusta a couple of months later, and DeChambeau demonstrated he has got all the tools to follow in the footsteps of Danny Willett in 2016 and Sergio Garcia in 2017.

This was his fourth win in his last eight starts on the PGA and European Tours, and the fifth in his last 15. Dismissed as a ‘mad scientist’ when he emerged less than three years ago, with irons that all have the same length of shaft — the length of a seven iron — and golf balls that are tested in Epsom salts for balance, it is clear the physics major has unearthed a winning formula for geeks.

‘My recent results do feel like a vindication for doing it in a different way, and that the game doesn’t always have to be about feel,’ said DeChambeau.

DeChambeau carded a closing 64 at Emirates Golf Club to set a new tournament record

‘I’ve obviously now got the Masters in the back of my mind and I’m clearly heading in the right direction in terms of my game being in the right place for Augusta.’

DeChambeau began with a one-shot lead over defending champion Haotong Li, with Wallace and the evergreen Ernie Els just three behind.

Any notion this would be a close-fought affair lasted barely three holes, as DeChambeau opened with a hat-trick of birdies. A stupendous eagle three at the 10th, where his second shot finished just eight feet from the flag, removed any last vestige of drama.

The list of Americans with victories in regular events on both tours aged 25 or under on is not long, and DeChambeau has now joined the likes of Brooks Koepka and — of course — Tiger Woods.

It says much about his performance in winning by so many that no fewer than 36 players were covered by the next seven shots.

Wallace was the best of the rest with Ian Poulter and the Wirral’s Paul Waring moving spectacularly through the pack with 64s of their own to be part of the group in third place.

Lee Westwood finished a further shot behind in tied seventh spot, but there was no fairytale ending for 49-year-old Els, who needed a birdie at the last to claim the 300th top 10 of his illustrious career. Alas, the putt dribbled by and he had to settle for a still creditable share of 12th.

While an American won on the European Tour, on the PGA Tour in California, England’s world No 1 Justin Rose took a three-shot lead into the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open.

Hoping to chase him down at Torrey Pines was second placed Adam Scott, who lives less than a good tee shot away from Rose in the Bahamas.